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ReSt@MINT

The influence of resilience on the academic success of STEM students

LMU Munich; Bavarian State Institute for Higher Education Research and Planning (IHF)

PraeventAbb

Early prevention of dropout phenomena – a randomised field study on the short- and long-term effects of academic counselling for persons with higher education entrance qualifications

University of Cologne

ABBA-X

University dropouts and their career outlooks. Experimental studies on integration in the labour and education markets

Freie Universität Berlin

AKEFS

Analysis of the costs and rewards of changes of subject during studies and of dropping out

Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim

BUKSS

Determining factors in social inequalities, and consequences of changes of study programmes and of termination of studies (dropping out)

International Centre for Higher Education Research (INCHER-Kassel)

CASSIS

Chemistry, social sciences and engineering sciences: academic success and dropout phenomena

University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE)

DMPS

Determinants and models for forecasting university dropout rates

University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE)

FragSte

Early identification of students at risk of dropping out, and experimental studies on the effectiveness of measures

University of Wuppertal (BUW)

HoStaNu

Use higher education statistics!

Europa-Universität Flensburg

InMaSS

Effectiveness of institutional measures, on the part of higher education institutions, to reduce dropout rates

Bavarian State Institute for Higher Education Research and Planning (IHF)

PIRanHa

Project for identification of students at risk of dropping out – and for reducing their numbers

IZA – Institute of Labor Economics

ProkRASt

Procrastination as a risk factor for termination of studies; sub-project: The role of motivation for studies

Bielefeld University; University of Augsburg; Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB)

SAM

Dropout phenomena in mathematics

Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen; University of Stuttgart

SeSaBa

Academic success and dropout phenomena among foreign students in bachelor's and master's degree programmes in Germany

German Academic Exchange Service; Bavarian State Institute for Higher Education Research and Planning (IHF); FernUniversität in Hagen – University of Hagen

SPRASTU

Language and the academic success of foreign students. An empirical longitudinal study, for the subject areas chemistry, economics, and German as a foreign/second language / German studies, at the universities of Leipzig and Würzburg

Leipzig University; Julius-Maximilians-Universität (JMU) Würzburg

STHAGE

Dropout phenomena, habitus and social image

University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE); Hannover University of Applied Sciences and Arts

VStud

Behavioural-economics-based measures for assuring academic success

University of Göttingen; Nuremberg Tech (TH Nürnberg)

WeGe

Refugees' pathways to German higher education institutions. A mixed-methods study on the conditions under which refugees seeking higher education succeed in gaining access to it

German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW)